Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 3½ years and nearly 1,500 performances of My Fair Lady in Manhattan and London, Musicomedienne Julie Andrews stepped out of the Cinderella role of Eliza Doolittle for the last time in London's Drury Lane Theater. Confessed Julie: "I never really got the part under control. I got very close to it sometimes...
...canon, the dethroned king has been shafted or jabbed, barbed by the purple shaft or the maroon harpoon. In despair he feels clanked or clutched. He has a similar feeling if a girl merely keeps him in the club (dates many boys and favors none), though it is only fair to add that such girls often end up clawing the wall ("whatever that means," Dr. Boone says delicately...
Short-Storyteller and Novelist (The Poor house Fair) John Updike likes to give his characters barium breakfasts. As they swallow life's little ironies or surprises, he puts his literary X-ray machine to work photographing the newly revealed conformations and deformations of man. In this collection of 16 short stories, Author Updike's plots vary-they may turn on a boy's whistle, a bachelor girl's bed, a bottle of wine-but the personality changes that result share the kinship of human nature well-observed...
...Fair Lady holds the musical field, with The Music Man a close second, and Redhead (Gwen Verdon up) followed by Flower Drum Song just about rounding the box-office turn...
Richard Nixon, by Earl Mazo. A generally friendly but fair account of a fascinating political career...